This is the initial alpha release of a new AIO checkpoint,
intended to take Z Image Turbo to new places...
Announcing JoZiMagic:
an AIO checkpoint using ZImage Turbo with a different clip encoder and VAE that should change up the results you get... for the better.
It's an AIO checkpoint consisting of:
Normal bf16 release of Z Image Turbo
'better' Clip Encoder by replacing the stock Qwen3 4b encoder with a "Josiefied Gabliterated" version (hereafter known as Josie) ** in testing, this encoder produced very different but consistent (and often superior) results given the same seed/prompt/etc. as the stock encoder clip model.
'different' VAE than the stock flux VAE, currently the G-REPA/Self-Attention-W2048-3B-Res256-VAEFLUX-Repa0.5-Depth8-Dinov2-B_100000 VAE ** This might later be replaced with a different VAE, such as Anzhc/Z-Image_Anime_VAE, depending on what seems to perform best...
Yes, you can put these together yourself from the parts... and it's a big checkpoint (33gb) so putting together some quantized versions is a good idea... but you gotta start somewhere. By making this an AIO, it encourages people to try it out. And it lays out a name for this combo of things...
Load using the normal 'load checkpoint' node in ComfyUI, and add the usual nodes: Text Encoder for the prompt, a Sampler, a VAE Decode of the Latents and Save Image.
I recommend using the Zimage Text Encoder nodes current found inside https://github.com/fblissjr/ComfyUI-QwenImageWanBridge as those encoders give you MUCH more control over what is sent to Josie.
I'll add some sample images and workflow in a bit...
Thank you to the team behind Z Image Turbo: TongyiLab
Thank you to Gökdeniz Gülmez for the J.O.S.I.E project, which retrains a variety of models to behave differently.
Thank you to the G-Repa folks for the VAE
And a huge Thank You to the people on the Banodoco discord, including Kijai, Pom, and all of the other regulars there in the wan and zimage channels.